Just days after the Supreme Court guaranteed the right to same-sex marriage throughout the country, the named plaintiff in the case, Jim Obergfell, was among participants in the San Francisco Pride Celebration and Parade on Sunday, June 28, 2015, which attracted thousands of spectators to Market Street in San Francisco, Calif. Rick Welts, president of the Golden State Warriors, was one of the parade’s grand marshals. (Photos by Aric Crabb and Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

"There is a general recognition that we don't need these military-style weapons in New Zealand, so it's very easy to win cross-party support for this," said Mark Mitchell, who was defense minister in the previous, center-right government and who supports the ban initiated by the center-left-led Labour Party.